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Mountain High Resort, ROXY, and Snowboard Magazine have partnered to create Sunset Sessions, a
new series of evening park clinics for girls in January and February.

Geared
towards girls who are comfortable on green and blue runs, Sunset Sessions
provides an encouraging environment where participants can progress at their
own pace with Mountain High’s certified female coaches.

The ROXY Team ups
the experience by hitting the slopes with the girls and providing ROXY product
demos.

Sunset Sessions is offered in two
four-week sessions and takes place every Wednesday in January and February from
7-9pm.

For $99* each participant receives a four-week clinic, a free
subscription to Snowboard Magazine, an opportunity to demo ROXY snowboards, and
a chance to ride with the ROXY Team. Each clinic ends with complimentary hot
drinks and dessert.

“At Mountain High we’re
always looking for new ways to encourage more girls to get involved with
snowboarding,” said Laura Johnson, Marketing Manager at Mountain High.
“Last season we launched a successful 30+ women’s learn-to-ride
program and look forward to adding Sunset Sessions for the 16-29 year old demographic.
We’re excited to have ROXY and Snowboard Magazine as partners to add to the
experience for the girls.”

ROXY has been supporting
women’s snowboarding since 2003 when the brand introduced its first line
of snowboards. ROXY also puts on The Roxy Chicken Jams, a series of all-female
pro snowboarding events that began four years ago in Innsbruck, Austria. ROXY’s
pro snow team includes world-class athletes Torah Bright, Alexis Waite, and
Amber Stackhouse.

Don’t just ride this season,
up your ante at Sunset Sessions at Mountain High.

This
amateur snowboard contest is tons of fun for kids of all ages. Sierra Resort is
the first stop on the series that lasts all season and travels all over North America. The rails challenge snowboarders to get
creative and impress the judges to make it to the final competition in late
spring where the prize purse can get upwards of $20,000.

To
celebrate Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort’s 40th anniversary of winter
operations, we’ll offer a specially priced $40 lift ticket for purchase online
and give all Vertical Plus members that ski/ride on this day 40,000 feet. The
first 40 people who purchase tickets at the resort that morning will also
receive a commemorative T-shirt. There will be a Skiing through the Decades demonstration by SkiSchool
and, beginning at 3:00 p.m., the Sierra Pub will top off the celebration by
offering food & drink specials, a live DJ playing tunes from 1968, and
footage from the early days of Sierra Ski Ranch.

This winter, a vacation in Salt
Lake just became more
affordable and accessible than ever before.
The Ski Salt Lake Super Pass, sold in increments of one to six days good
over a 7-day period, is valid at all four world-class resorts in the Cottonwood
Canyons and provides an easy and inexpensive way to experience each of the
resorts through a single lift pass, while enjoying all the dining, nightlife
and value that downtown Salt Lake has to offer.

With most major airlines operating flights
into Salt Lake every day, many featuring non-stop morning
arrival flights from major gateway cities, visitors can be schussing down the
slopes when those bound for other destinations are still going through security
lines.

Super
Pass prices start at $114
for a two-day adult pass and goes up to a six-day pass for $336. It is valid at
Alta, Brighton, Snowbird and Solitude, and is
redeemable for a full-day lift ticket at any one of these resorts.

Available
for purchase online at Ski-SaltLake.com,
or through travel agencies, tour operators and Salt
Lake hotels, the Super
Pass gives visitors the opportunity to
tour all of Salt Lake’s famed resorts from a convenient
base camp.

To make getting on the slopes from Salt
Lake even easier, the Super Pass
also includes free transportation on the UTA ski buses and the new
TRAX-light-rail. The direct-to-resort ski buses run on regularly scheduled
service, eliminating the need and associated costs of renting a car.

In addition to offering the Super
Pass, a Salt Lake
winter vacation provides a variety of lodging options to fit every interest and
budget. From a luxury Five-Diamond hotel and spa, to a variety of remarkably
well priced budget hotels, Salt
Lake offers a downtown
base camp that is high on value and low on stress.

Off the slopes, visitors can
take advantage of the other activities Salt Lake
has to offer, including a variety of cultural offerings, a happening restaurant
and nightlife scene, and endless shopping.

At the end of a
two year construction process to build one of the most expensive, and
technically challenging aerial trams in the US, Jackson Hole once
again has the longest continuous vertical rise in North America!

The new Aerial Tram at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort is twice the size of the original, carrying 100 passengers. The sleek, new cabins,
and visually inspiring base terminal only add to the faster and more
efficient “cable to the sky”.

As well as the journey, it is the
destination that captures the spirit of the Jackson Hole Tram. Soaring
4,139 vertical feet in 9 minutes to the summit of Rendezvous Mountain
is unrivaled in the ski industry, cresting the Tetons with an endless choice of ski routes below, not to mention incredible 360 views.

Santa came to Crested Butte again
last night with 13 inches of
fresh powder for all the skiers and riders, bringing the season’s total
to 126 inches of natural snowfall. In the past 7 days, over 50 inches
have covered the ski area making Crested Butte one of the snowfall
leaders in Colorado! All this snow has 97% of terrain open, 481 acres
of groomers,
and 14 / 16 lifts running. This December is truly shaping up to be on
par with last year’s all-time record season.

“The
forecast
is calling for almost 10 more inches today and tonight,” says Crested
Butte Mountain Resort’s Mountain Manager, Chris Corliss.
“We have a total of 116 inches for December already! We are making sure
all operations, terrain, and lifts are as safe as possible. The amount
of snow we have is pretty awesome this year.”

In celebration of breaking the 100 inch mark, Crested Butte Vacations is offering Ski
& Stay packages starting from only $100. To book this package call Crested Butte Vacations at (800) 600-2803 or visit www.skicb.com/100inches

*Package price is per person per night and includes lodging at the Grand Lodge Crested Butte and one lift ticket per
person per night of lodging booked.

Imagine
an infusion of distinct individual snow flavors. The new Pow Pow Platter pass offers one day of skiing at
Steamboat, Copper Mountain and Winter Park for only $99.

The
Pow Pow Platter is an ideal way to usher in the New Year with great value for skiing rat three of Colorado’s favorite resorts. The Pow Pow Platter is a photo ID pass, is unrestricted with no blackout dates and days do not have to
be used consecutively. One ticket is valid for one day at each resort.
Think about it, $33 a day for three incredible resorts.

Pow Pow Platter
connoisseurs have access to a combined total of 432 trails, 8,493 acres
and over 9,300 vertical feet of terrain at Copper Mountain, Winter Park
and Steamboat.

Pow
Pow Platters will be available while supplies last
or until Jan. 31., whichever comes first. Platters may only be
purchased online at www.PowPowPlatter.com or by calling toll-free 866-763-5958. Platters must be purchased 48-hours in advance and may be redeemed at any resort.

Get your six-pack at Mountain High! No not beer or a washboard stomach, dude, we’re talking six 8-Hour lift tickets good any day or night INCLUDING HOLIDAYS
for $179.

That’s just over $29 per ticket. Regularly $54
non-holiday and $64 on peak weekends & holidays, you save $24 to
$34 per visit. This 6-Pack will pay for itself in less than three visits! And you won’t even have a hangover! Awesome!

Tickets are already activated, so you can go straight to the lift. Each
6-Pack is encoded on a single electronic-access card giving users the
benefits of Mountain High’s ticketing technology such as hands-free
lift access and guaranteed admittance during sellouts.

Anyone can use
the 6-Pack but only one ticket may be used per day UNTIL March 30, at which time multiple tickets can be downloaded for family and
friends.

So let’s recap for those of us still soggy from last night’s rain:

Only $29 per day, everyday, INCLUDING HOLIDAYS!

Save $34 per day on holidays & peak weekends! Save $24 all other days!

Pays for itself in less than 3 visits!

Split the cost by sharing it with different people on different days.

The 6-Pack is a LIVE ticket. Go straight to the lifts. No ticket lines.

Guarantees your admittance during sell outs.

You’ll find the 6-Pack at Sport Chalet, Big 5, The Sports Authority, Chick’s Sporting Goods, and other specialty sport shops near you, but they are not available at Mountain High! Click here for a sales location near you.

Program
not valid with any other discount or promotion. Unused tickets expire
at the end of the 08.9 season. Sale ends Jan. 4, 2009.

Bear Mountain and Snow Summit are 100% open with 438 acres of beginner
to advanced terrain, 26 available lifts, a 3 to 5 foot base, and fresh
machine groomed packed powder! Last week we received 3 to 4 feet of
snow and additional snowfall is forecast periodically throughout this
week. Park Staff is building the feature count with more than 60 jibs
and snowfeatures and the halfpipe is currently under construction and
will be opening soon!

Sierra at Tahoe is offering specially priced lift tickets because of early season conditions.

Holiday Festivities began Sunday and continue through Wednesday. Family-friendly activities each day include snowman
contests, Santa skiing and snowboarding around the resort, a hot
chocolate and candy cane farewell, as well as a Jingle Bell limbo with
fabulous prizes on Sunday and the Elk Grove Middle School Choir singing
carols on Monday.

Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort offers some deals this winter season. The 3-Pak
offers skiers and riders the chance to purchase lift tickets at last
year’s price, through January 1, 2009. 3-Pak tickets can be used any
day of the winter season, including holidays, and don’t have to be used
consecutively. At just $45 per day for adults and $37 per day for young
adults, the price can’t be beat.